Improvement in combined plows and seeders



UNITED PATENT OFFICE- WILLIAM o. BIBB, on MADIsoN,enonGIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED FLOWS AND SEEDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 113,482, dated April1], 1871.

I, WILLIAM C. BIBB, of the city of Madison, in the county of Morgan, andthe State of Georgia, have invented certain Improvements to be attachedto a subsoil-plow, for the purpose of subsoiling the ground,distributing the fertilizer in the bottom of the furrow, covering thesame at a certain depth, opening a furrow, sowing the cotton-seed orother seed to be planted in` drills, and covering the same, so that thefertilizer andseed shall not be in contact, all to be done at one andthe same operation. A

The first part of my invention is the attachment of a double hopper onthe beam of an ordinary subsoil-plow. This hopper is so adjusted anddivided that the front division or apartment comes directly over theplow, (iron or steel,) and is so arranged that, by the assistance ofother machinery, the fertilizer is caused to descend through a hollowspace run :ning lengthwise through the subsoilplow, and is deposited inthe bottom of the furrow made by the same, and immediately under it. AThis plow is followed by a beveled wheel,V (iroit or wood,) whichpresses the earth above the fertilizer, and at the same time opens astraight furrow or channel, with compacted sides, for the reception ofthe seed.

The rear apartment of the double hopper contains the seed to be sown,which is distributed by machinery within, actuated by machinery fromwithout, in like manner, and causes the seed to descend through a spoutof wood or metal into the furrow opened by the wheel in front of spoutand rear of subsoil-plow.

On the rear end of the plow-beam is attached a board or harrow, by meansof strips of iron, which, following, covers the seed, and thus the wholeoperation is performed at one and the same time.

The second part of my invention is the application of a hollowsuhsoil-plow for the distribution of fertilizers, in conj unctiou withthe hopper to contain the same.

The third part of my invention is the use of a beveled wheel, (of woodor iron,) for the double purpose of covering the fertilizer and openinga drill for the sowing of cotton or other seed, which wheel is fixedupon its aXle plow and seed-spout, by which they are kept free fromclogging.

Description Qf my Invention of a Subsc/iler,

Fertilizer, Dstrtbutcr, and Seed-Sorter Oombt'ned.

Figure lis a side elevation of the machine.

A A is the beam ofthe plow, in which the subsoil-plow C is rmly fixed. Dis a beveled wheel immediately in the rear of the plow C, which has ashaft passing through its center, to which it is immovably iixed.- @neither end of this shaft is a crank, d, to Veach of which is attached aconnecting-rod, I. On one side of the machine this rod connects with alarger crank at a, which is attached at b to` an axle passing throughthe seed-box, and used to compel' the seed, by the means of the devicerepresented in Fig. 5, to descend through the hopper E. 0n the otherside is a similar attachment, but passing to the front hopper, andV inlike manner compelling the fertilizer to descend throughtheplow into thefurrow beneath.

F is a seed-coverer, attached to rear end of the beam AA. E is theseed-spout, through which the seed is carried into the furrow opened bythe wheel D. C is a contrivance for regulating the feed by sliding in orout, as the quantity of seed or fertilizer is desired to be increased ordiminished, and is more dis tinctly shown in Fig. 4, K.

Fig. 1 -n is a thumb-screw for mcving K, Fig. 4t, in or out. Fig. 4-x isa slot, intended only to give a place for the shaft which runs throughthe boX to work without pressure. Fig. l-m is the point where thefertilizer is emptied into the furrow beneath the plow. Fig. 3-G is aview of the bottom of the foot of the snbsoil-piow, showing the opening.and fertilizing devices by cranks I I, in com- Fig. 2 `is a bottom Viewof my machine, and is bination with the plow C and seed-spout E,intended to give a plainer View than could be substantially as and forthepurpose set forth.

made/in a side elevation. WILLIAM C. BIBB. i

Having described my invention7 what I de- Witnesses: sire to secure byLetters Patent is- F. C. FOSTER,

The beveled wheel D, actuating the seeding T. W. S. BROBETAN.

